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Royal Bank Of Canada (RY): Today's Featured Banking Laggard

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Royal Bank Of Canada (
RY) pushed the Banking industry lower today making it today's featured Banking laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Royal Bank Of Canada fell $1.02 (-1.7%) to $59.84 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 822,842 shares of Royal Bank Of Canada exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 487,300 shares. The stock ranged in price between $59.39-$60.92 after having opened the day at $60.85 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $60.86. Other companies within the Banking industry that declined today were:
Village Bank and Trust Financial Corporatio (
VBFC), down 7.8%,
Emclaire Financial Corporation (
EMCF), down 6.5%,
Monarch Financial Holdings (
MNRK), down 5.9%, and
Unity Bancorp (
UNTY), down 5.3%.

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Royal Bank of Canada provides personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor and treasury, and capital markets services worldwide. Royal Bank Of Canada has a market cap of $88.26 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.9, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 0.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are three analysts that rate Royal Bank Of Canada a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Royal Bank Of Canada as a
hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that we feel that the company's cash flow from its operations has been weak overall.